Thursday, 18 June 2009

Tutorial

As pages of my Lexicon have been spread near and far I think it's time to show you how to make a paper pocket. Take a page of a book or other paper cut approx to A5, fold the corners to the centre as if you're going to make a paper plane

Take the top right and fold to centre, there should be a small overlap running along the side (left)

Fold the top left under, forming a 'tail' at the bottom. You can decide yourself how big you want the pocket, it just depends where you make this fold.

Tuck the tail into the folded corner and there's your pocket. You can turn it around and tuck an ATC into the corner or as I ended up doing sew around the whole thing and get busy altering. If you want to add a bit of weight to it slip a small piece of card inside the folds and attach with gel medium.

I DID IT! I DID IT! And it looks JUST like yours (Of course! Because I am using the same paper!) I have an old, German Bible whose pages would look SO great made into some pockets. Hmmm, come to think of it, I have TONS of paper that would look good made into pockets!!!!!